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How to watch, stream or listen as Kentucky basketball plays Florida

LEXINGTON, Ky. – No. 6 Kentucky (17-3) will try to extend its winning streak to eight games Saturday at Florida (12-8). Here's the information you need to know to follow the game on television, radio or online.

Story lines

► The hunted: In the span of a month Kentucky has gone from searching for quality wins to being a team that offers opponents on the NCAA Tournament bubble a chance to build their own resumes. That's the scenario Florida finds itself in this weekend. The computer metrics like the Gators, who are ranked 31st by Kenpom.com and 39th by the NCAA's NET metric, but Florida still lacks the top-end wins that would make coach Mike White feel its tournament fate is safe. Florida is just 1-6 in "Quadrant One" games with its first top-50 win coming Wednesday against Ole Miss.

► Forward progress: Kentucky checked another box Tuesday in proving it could blowout one of the league's worst teams on the road in the way an elite squad is supposed to. Winning at Florida would be another feat to pair with that and the three straight wins over ranked teams considering everything that's at stake for the Gators. "Everything we do is geared toward growth," Calipari said. "That’s why you can’t get crazy on just results. It’s growth. Are we getting better? Are individual players getting better? Are they playing more confident, are they being more aggressive? Is anybody being tentative? Why is he being tentative? How do we change that? Then the games are to build that."

► An eye on Johnson: Freshman guard Keldon Johnson, UK's leading scorer, was held without a point in the first half against Vanderbilt. UK's behind-the-scenes video from the trip showed Calipari calling Johnson out in the halftime locker room by asking his assistants if he deserved to start the second half. Associate head coach Kenny Payne said Johnson should start because he was about to wake up. Johnson repaid that confidence with 11 points in the second half. With Florida playing a smaller lineup, it's likely Kentucky will need more of the second-half version of Johnson on Saturday. "You’re challenging them all different kind of ways," Calipari said. "Started him (in the second half) and he played pretty well."

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